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David Biespiel
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Poet, novelist, painter. Texas expat. Contributor to the New Yorker, New Republic, Orion, Poetry, APR, NYT. Thirteen books, including the forthcoming BEAUTIFUL IS THE WORLD: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.
Back at it in Portland. Surprised the Feds didn’t bust it up. They hate us.
April 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
How it was going (11 years ago). How it's still going (this morning).
December 17, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I love this opening stanza of Joseph Brodsky's "The end of a Beautiful Era."
December 12, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Winter window (sketchbook, acrylic, 4x5 inches)
December 4, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Paris cafe. (Morning sketchbook. Acrylic on paper. 5x7 in.)
December 2, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper)
November 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
"I watch the clouds as I see them
in pomp advancing, pursuing
the fallen sun." ~ Denise Levertov

My morning sketchbook (gouache, on paper).
November 27, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I like to think that, if I were alive on this day in 1942 (and obviously not drafted already and serving in the US military, that is), then I'd have been in a movie theatre to see the premiere of this gem.
November 26, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper)
November 26, 2024 at 9:44 PM
This poem of Seamus Heaney's is so delicate. "The Haw Lantern."
November 22, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Morning sketchbook. (Gouache on paper.)
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 PM
From the Department of Sometimes the Q/A at Readings Are Contentious.

I was trying to find something in an email from four years back for a dear friend. No luck. But I came across this impossible exchange from a reading q/a when A PLACE OF EXODUS came out, must have been 2020.

Tough crowd.
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM
When I say I miss Texas, I don’t mean the misogyny and the guns. I mean this. My sky. (Houston, 2023)
November 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
How’s the weather? Been so gray here, woolen. Here’s a splash of light from my sketchbook.
November 17, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Coffee shop revisions of new mss. A novel. A novel?!
November 16, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Such a darling poem by Edna Millay. Lovely to memorize. “…for the apples and pears”
November 16, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I like this poem a lot. "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain" by Wallace Stevens.
November 16, 2024 at 12:58 AM